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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 7424480, member: 19463"]Minority opinion: In general, I dislike historical fiction as a genre usually because they can't stop with filling in the blanks where history has not provided an answer but have to change things to make the story 'their own'. This usually comes up when the story line centers on a ruler about whom we know enough to be bothered by the changes. That is why I liked the movie <u>Titanic</u>. The main characters and fictional and only lightly interacted with the famous people on the ship but whatever was shown that is known was shown correctly. They even had the carpeting shown recreated from the Jacquard loom instructions. When Commodus is shown on screen, he tends to have some characteristics of Tiberius, Caligula and the director's favorite dream bad guy all rolled into one. That is why I preferred the <u>Game of Thrones</u> approach. Personalities from history might make a guest appearance here and there but 99% of the viewers could tell that dragons, the map and multiple suns flagged the story as fictional. The names were not just changed; they were made up. </p><p><br /></p><p>That brings up another question. Why does Hollywood keep hyping the story of Commodus who is not the only Roman worth showing? Where is the life of Vespasian? Julia Maesa would be my personal choice as a movie subject. In the past, when this subject came up here, I have proposed a multi season series starting with Maesa watching from the wings as her sister Domna was prominent. Season two would start with the death of Caracalla and how Maesa engineered her first available grandson's rise and reign. Season three would show her changing grandsons when the first turned out to be a bit too strange. Are these stories too boring for TV or would they just upset some modern faction. </p><p><br /></p><p>Has anyone watched the PBS docu-drama on <u>The Six Wives of Henry VIII</u>? I may have liked it better because I do not know what there is to know about that period so I missed the problems.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 7424480, member: 19463"]Minority opinion: In general, I dislike historical fiction as a genre usually because they can't stop with filling in the blanks where history has not provided an answer but have to change things to make the story 'their own'. This usually comes up when the story line centers on a ruler about whom we know enough to be bothered by the changes. That is why I liked the movie [U]Titanic[/U]. The main characters and fictional and only lightly interacted with the famous people on the ship but whatever was shown that is known was shown correctly. They even had the carpeting shown recreated from the Jacquard loom instructions. When Commodus is shown on screen, he tends to have some characteristics of Tiberius, Caligula and the director's favorite dream bad guy all rolled into one. That is why I preferred the [U]Game of Thrones[/U] approach. Personalities from history might make a guest appearance here and there but 99% of the viewers could tell that dragons, the map and multiple suns flagged the story as fictional. The names were not just changed; they were made up. That brings up another question. Why does Hollywood keep hyping the story of Commodus who is not the only Roman worth showing? Where is the life of Vespasian? Julia Maesa would be my personal choice as a movie subject. In the past, when this subject came up here, I have proposed a multi season series starting with Maesa watching from the wings as her sister Domna was prominent. Season two would start with the death of Caracalla and how Maesa engineered her first available grandson's rise and reign. Season three would show her changing grandsons when the first turned out to be a bit too strange. Are these stories too boring for TV or would they just upset some modern faction. Has anyone watched the PBS docu-drama on [U]The Six Wives of Henry VIII[/U]? I may have liked it better because I do not know what there is to know about that period so I missed the problems.[/QUOTE]
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